Many of the screens were not well scaled--the fonts were too small and there was much too much "white space" that could have better utilized. Many of the windows that needed scrolling were wasting the available space on the screen. It makes me feel like the people who designed or tested these screens were not looking at it as a real user would see it.

Filing 2025 was relatively easy. Estimating my 2026 estimated tax was somewhat confusing. I finally got it to work, BUT this 2025 version would not allow me to enter the expected withholding from our IRA distributions. The 2024 version had a place to enter expected withholding. It defaulted to the 2024 withholdings and would not let me override it. This caused the quarterly estimates to be overstated, thus making the payment vouchers incorrect. I will have to override the vouchers manually.

Very good, as usual. Though this year I had an issue with an IRA where part of it was spun off to a new IRA. Turbotax handled the resulting RMD requirement satisfied by the new IRA poorly, or should I say not at all without tricking it. Also sometimes the navigation back to old screens causes the subsequent forward navigation to skip steps. that were previously presented.

Having done my own taxes for over 60 years, - without software mostly, then TaxCut and now Turbo Tax, and having various semi-complex issues, I think I am well qualified to comment. Turbo Tax is quite useful , but is beginning to suffer, somewhat due to Tax code complexity, and from a number of program bugs in the effort to become more "user friendly". I found with the K-1 forms, the carry forward blocks did not function properly leading to trying various dummy (incorrect) values to be able to move on to the next line item. Then a mystery signifiant "additional deduction" appeared in the review without explanation, and there was no way to obtain a link to become informed. It turns out that this was the new "Senior Deduction." It also took a number of attempts to get the "forms" button to activate in order to verify how certain entries were being recorded- in prior years programs, this was always easy. I also discovered that a Treasury Direct 1099 has no Box 1, yet TurboTax Interest entry form has both Box 1 and Box 3, leaving one to guess whether you enter the entry twice, or only once ( the correct answer is only once, in Box 3- discovered after noticing my initial entry on both lines created a double count of the actual interest earned. I caught the error through due diligence- not Turbo Tax looking for possible errors in the final check step. I could not discover if possible or how to download K-1 entries from either of our PTP LLC's. nor from Treasury Direct. It was easier to just manually enter than search longer. I cannot e-file due to the inability of TurboTax to accept an attachment statement document upload. (an IRS Code section 266 annual filing election to accrue expenses on a land investment held for eventual sale). finally, TOO MANY solicitations to e-file, buy help, etc. endless !

Software seems to have more bugs this year - had to fix several fields that did not correctly import from last year's filings, or strange defaults were auto-selected. Be sure to double-check the fields. UI/UX had strange bugs too. We are paying a lot of money for this software to be experiencing quality issues like this. Not pleased at all.

I have used Turbo Tax for many years and continue to use it because of the people who have been so quick to help me get over some bumps that I was totally unaware of until I got more and more involved. This year was fortunate to have Aaron assist me. He was and is fantastic. I am 86 years old and not a technological genius! I'm sure as we continued to help me,there were times he had to be frustrated yet he never seemed to exhibit it. I was totally impressed with his knowledge and expertise, he was able to guide - even me to success. I will continue to look to Turbo Tax for the 2026 edition.

The fact that state tax (Arizona) has none of the easy user interface question as the federal return is getting a little old. and that you can return to a particular spot like you can in the federal. State forms have not changed over the years and you just haven't put any money ino making them better. "Ok, It's taking more the a little time" was cute 15 year ago. Get rid of it and give more practical information about when the app will actually open

1)On a1099R form It showed the gross amount in box 1 and the taxable amount in box 2a. So I entered the info accordingly in turbo tax. Out of curiosity I said no which led me to the next screen asking me if the general rule or simplified rule was used. This is a form provided by the brokerage firm .How is an individual supposed to know that? This information in all the boxes shown in the 1099R was entered correctly into Turbo tax, Shouldn't the software have figured out if there was a taxable amount or not? 2)During efiling the forms for the state, a fee of $25 is charged, which is fine. Then you have the option of paying by credit card or have it subtracted out of your federal refund. If you select the deduction from your federal refund there is an additional $40 processing fee on the next screen. This should be clarified right before a person selects the option\ not after selecting the option 3) I had called in with a question and the rep asked me to share my screen. I gave him the screen share number but he said the screen was blank.??

I have used Turbo Tax and Quicken since the `1990's. This year's version was the worst I have ever used. I imported my investing data but the numbers didn't prefill in the form; I had to manually enter it. To top it all off, I still can't print my final return as of now. I will use Turbo Tax next year, but if have the problems II had this ear, I will move to a different product

The tricky part about using Turbo Tax is understanding the questions it is asking. It also sometimes seems to go down the wrong pathway. For example, after I entered the income from my work pension (I retired a dozen years ago) it insisted that I answer questions about an RMD. Try as I may there was no way around this. Googling this issue turned up other people asking about the same thing. The answer provided by Turbo Tax gave precise steps but still got to a point where it said to enter the RMD. There isn't one; that doesn't apply. It has never asked that question before. I gave up and entered the taxable amount of the pension as the RMD and it let me proceed.